Tour guides and visitors said they were trapped in the Raphael Rooms on Saturday as crowds swelled.
February 17, 2021
A visitor observes the Raphael Rooms at the Vatican Museums February 4, 2021. Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images.
The Vatican Museums are under fire for allegedly not enforcing social-distancing rules since reopening to the public this month.
Getty photographers documented a near-empty museum early in February, with just a handful of visitors in each galley. Two weeks later, it appeared to be a very different story, with overcrowding and disregard for health protocols, according to the Italian newspaper
La Republica and English-language reports from the Local and the